Vintage Vinyl Records: Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun

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Chris Isaak's longstanding desire to musically salute his inspirations was fast-tracked when he read a 2000 interview with the great Sun Records producer Sam Phillips that appeared in the Oxford American. Near the end of the Q&A, Phillips was asked if any contemporary recording artists grabbed his attention. His response blew Chris away. "I don't keep up with the business like I used to," said Phillips, "but I love to listen to Chris Isaak. He's very talented, and his music is so damned honest. It's incredible." That pretty much sealed the deal for this Sun worshiper. The accurately titled Beyond the Sun, Chris Isaak's Vanguard Records debut is a self-described labor of love. Since he fell in love with his parents' 45s as a child in Stockton, California, this passionate writer/artist has been obsessed with the glory days of Memphis' Sun Studio and the visionary artists who got their starts there--including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis--all of them discovered and nurtured by Sam Phillips. Now, at long last, Isaak magically recaptures the transformative brilliance of the classic sides cut by these greats at Sun with Phillips during the mid-'50s, while also getting down to the nitty-gritty of his own deeply rooted musical identity.

Disc 1
  1. Ring of Fire
  2. Trying to Get to You
  3. I Forgot to Remember to Forget
  4. Great Balls of Fire
  5. Can't Help Falling in Love
  6. Dixie Fried
  7. How's the World Treating You
  8. It's Now or Never
  9. Miss Pearl
10. Live It Up
11. I Walk the Line
12. So Long I'm Gone
13. She's Not You
14. My Happiness

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Disc 2
  1. My Baby Left Me
  2. Oh, Pretty Woman
  3. Doin' the Best I Can
  4. Your True Love
  5. Crazy Arms
  6. Lovely Loretta
  7. Everybody's in the Mood
  8. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry
  9. Love Me
10. Doncha' Think It's Time
11. That Lucky Old Sun